Defeat Quotes - Page 34

• A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.30, Kodansha International

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• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Justice, People

  "Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

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• We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Beaten

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• We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

  Joseph Addison

  Successful, Men, Evil

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.5878, Delphi Classics

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• I see for Nature no defeat
  In one tree's overthrow
  Or for myself in my retreat
  For yet another blow.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Blow, Tree

  David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Bravery, Victory

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• Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Enemy, Tongue

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Race, Taste

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• I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

  Grantland Rice

  Winning

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• What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leadership, Past, Men

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• Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

  Stefan Zweig

  History, Intellectual, Suffering

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• If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.

  Oliver Stone

  Strong, War, Winning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

  Brad Tavares

  Team, School, Feelings

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Leader, Musical

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• Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

  Mason Cooley

  Victory, Attentiveness

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• We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Hurt, Conscious

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• Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Noses, May

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• Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

  Bruce Lee

  Winning, Want, Accepting

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• Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

  Jan Smuts

  People, Brighter Days, Humiliation

  1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

  Edward Thomas

  Country, Character, Fighting

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• Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

  Lord Kelvin

  Jesus, Men, Rejection

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• One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Building Up, Political

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